US Feds put together ‘FTX task force’ to trace stolen user funds
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has formed the FTX Task Force to...
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No ‘respite’ for exploits, flash loans or exit scams in 2023: Cybersecurity firm
The new year is a fresh start for malicious actors in the crypto space and 2023 won’t likely see a...
Revoke your smart contract approvals ASAP, warns crypto investor
On the back of the worst year for crypto hacks and exploits, the crypto community has given some advice to...
Sam Bankman-Fried denies moving funds from Alameda wallets
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-defunct FTX exchange, has denied moving funds tied to Alameda wallets, days after...
Turkey’s central bank completes first CBDC test with more to come in 2023
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has completed the first trial of its central bank digital currency...
What to expect from crypto the year after FTX
Cryptocurrency had its Lehman moment with FTX — or, perhaps, another Lehman moment. The macroeconomic downturn has not spared crypto,...
10 predictions for crypto in 2023
This year has been a particularly tumultuous one for the crypto market, with many decentralized and centralized entities failing or...
DeGods and Y00ts NFTs are bridging off Solana. Here’s why
Nonfungible token (NFT) firm Dust Labs is migrating its two top-performing Solana NFT projects — DeGods and y00ts — onto...
What are Handshake (HNS) domains, and how do they work?
A particular topic of interest in the blockchain space is the emergence of blockchain-related projects in the domain name system...
The 5 strangest stories of the industry in 2022
From Terra to FTX, 2022 has given us many weird crypto stories. While investors have been enduring a bear market...
Bridge attacks will still pose major challenge for DeFi in 2023 — Security experts
Security has been a critical challenge for decentralized finance (DeFi) and its evolution. Between 2020 and 2022, hackers stole over $2.5...
Binance Launches Blockchain Education Program in Kazakhstan – Blockchain Bitcoin News
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is behind an initiative to qualify university students in Kazakhstan to work in the industry. Under an...
10 crypto tweets that made a splash in 2022
Another year in the crypto space has nearly passed. As usual, Twitter has been a hotbed of crypto-related conversation during...
Uniswap to allow users to buy cryptocurrency using debit and credit cards
Decentralized exchange Uniswap has partnered with fintech company Moonpay to allow users to buy cryptocurrency on its web app using...
Vitalik Buterin reveals 3 ‘huge’ opportunities for crypto in 2023
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared three “huge" opportunities yet to be realized in crypto, including mass crypto wallet adoption,...
US Senate banking chair floats possibility of banning crypto
United States Banking Committee chairman Sherrod Brown has suggested that the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading...
Bitvavo to prefund locked DCG assets worth $296.7M amid liquidity crisis
The Digital Currency Group and its affiliates (DCG), which manages $296.7 million (280 million euros) in deposits and digital assets...
Argentina’s province to issue US dollar-pegged stablecoin
The province of San Luis in Argentina approved a legislation allowing the issuance of its own stablecoin pegged to the...
Stellar partners with UNHCR to give Ukrainian refugees cash via USDC
Humanitarian groups have increasingly used blockchain technology to solve problems with lack of banking or inadequate identity verification in developing...
MetaMask to allow users to purchase and transfer Ethereum via PayPal
Digital payments platform PayPal has teamed up with MetaMask parent company ConsenSys to allow MetaMask users to purchase and transfer...
Algorand to support bank and insurance guarantees platform in Italy
Layer-1 blockchain platform Algorand has been chosen as the public blockchain to support an “innovative digital guarantees platform” to be...
Is Ripple poised to settle with SEC this week? Crypto Twitter weighs in
Rumors continue to swirl suggesting the two-year legal battle between Ripple Labs and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission...
